So far I have gotten in contact with Rob Scallon, Charles Berthoud and Ichika Nito to play this thing! We will travel to the US in March, so if you know some famous players or KZfaqrs who we should stop by let me know! Also I for some reason cut it out, but I have spent a good amount of days redesigning the part were the spinning thing connects, now using a slipring. You can hear how much less noisy this guitar is now, even when I play with much more distortion this time. Oh and sign up to Rocksmith+

That guitar needs songs written for it specifically

The first time Mattias didn't try to play River flows in you😂.

"No one hears the bass anyway". And that IS true. We dont hear it, we feel it.

I have never ever watched a full length video that tells me up front that the entire video is an ad. But I did watch this one. No regrets. Might even try that app.

The round neck helps w/ barre chords by matching the curvature of your fingers.

I would recommend Tyler Larson who has been known to seek out weird guitars, or Rhett Schull who is a working guitarist with lots of connections in the industry. If you will be in Canada either Sammy G (Samurai Guitarist) who delights in weird musical instruments, or Darrell Braun would be good choices.

Cool looking guitar. To make it easier to play you could add a stepper motor to rotate the neck to fixed positions, and 3 or 4 pedals for each (depends on how many neck positions are needed of course). That way you could quickly switch between playing bass and solo without causing the noise and and time delay.

"Let's turn it to the highest difficulty, because we're delusional-" lmao it's too relatable

For the unbalanced spinny bit, you could try a weighted disk made to cancel out the weight.

Rocksmith looks amazing. This is probably one of the coolest sponsors I've seen.

I think you could make it easier to play if you added a rotary encoder and a microcontroller to turn your motor into a servo, this will give it sufficient position control to: - lock the rotation to a specific position, you could even make presets that you could link to a pedal or something - detect if the user is spinning it and guide the position it ends up at so that it ends up at a whole chord

Since this is a round someone could write some music to follow the strings in their order meaning that the entire time you play you scale up or down in a flow so that you lead in to the base. It would be quite cool as the music can start at the base section and move on wards and end up finishing at the base or another section.

Good ad spot. Didn't mind that it was a 100% endorsement. Did a good job selling the product while still being an interesting vid about learning to play your crazy guitar. Rocksmith looks sweet, if I wanted to learn guitar.

You will one day master this instrument I cannot wait to see where you go from here!

I really don't mind ad videos like this as long as they fun. Its also much better than those "this portion of the video" BS sponsor inserts.

Have to say even though I enjoyed all the piano projects this is by far your greatest invention yet. Honestly so excited to see more vids with it

This is so incredibly epic! Awesome to see the progress on this. ZIP TIE CAPO

The Gatling Gun Guitar looks pretty cool! sounds amazing too.

You need a stepper motor instead of a normal motor for the turning of the neck. Then add foot buttons that move the neck into specific positions. Steppers also hold positions while powered, which would mean that you can control when the neck can spin freely and when it is "locked". Plus having buttons to put the neck into specific positions and even have the neck to movement patterns. do it.

Epic guitar playing! Cool instrument ❤

Some suggestions for you: 1) Put some stylish top to the guitar hiding the string ends and you could put extra weight so the guitar is balanced. 2) Modify the motor pedal so you can rotate to specific places: guitar, bass, fretless, single rotation, continuous rotation. 3) it’s possible to play notes with the “fretting” fingers so you could play the guitar section “normally” using your thumb to play the bass at the same time

It says something that I'm willing to watch a pure advertisement just to get a little more rotating guitar action. But hey, a man's gotta eat. And I can't get enough of this guitar. Can't wait to hear it played by someone who's good at it! Your skill is in the making, now we need to see the skill in the playing...

Bro this has so much potential.

You should sell this design to a manufacturer or something , i would love to have one of these

Youre a gem im so glad i found. All your videos are so great and i love seeing what wild things you come up with! Can't wait to see some other people play this guitar, and more importantly, what else you create!

honestly this ad is cool! i wish i had a guitar to play and use it with. definitely something i will keep in the back of my mind. Cant wait to see what other people think of the spinning guitar when they see it in person and try to play it

no wonder I was feeling so happy today, I felt the new post in my bones 😂

If you are using a stepper motor you can program the guitar to go to a specific position so you can reliably spin a fixed distance or create settings to quick change to different section like bass and back to guitar. If you want to get really crazy you can program song presets to spin the guitar the way you need it to depending on when you want it to switch to other sections or have it spin at certain points for no reason for cool points.

Mattias took playing bass and guitar to a whole different level and is better than me when I play on a normal bass or guitar.

Every video is great and better than the last keep up the great work 💪

As a mechanic who likes old school rock and roll. This is cool as hell dude. Great work!!

I'd add a mechanical "click" mechanism to the axle, bi-directional, similar to the bezel on a dive watch, but with adjustable tension, and made from soft plastic so the clicks aren't too audible. Shouldn't be too hard.

You can never disappoint me Mattias youre a genius.

You could try indexing certain positions with small/weak magnets. Would help positioning the neck while still allowing to spinn freely, if given enough speed.

I'd love to see "the dooo" playing this guitar

this thing sounds heavenly

I would like to see what someone with a classical guitar background could do with that, maybe they have a better understanding on what to do with the bass section.

Mattias, mad props for creating such an instrument, and learning to play both bass and guitar for it. Thanks for the videos and updates on it. Still tho, knowing absolutely nothing about how it would affect the sound, balance or playability, plz consider adding a guard on the back end. To prevent the thumbs and palms, or even an unlucky shirt caught in it, of the musician playing it from becoming shredded cheese.

A sponsor tie in that isn't a stretch, well played

I second the stepper motor suggestion, I think you could get a lot of utility out of rotating it a certain amount

This is incredible. I'm excited to follow your progress. I see the pedal control and the amp as the next two big parts of your puzzle. The pedal could be multi function controlling speed, direction, acceleration, deceleration, and preset stops. Another commenter mentioned a servo motor which sounds appropriate. It could produce superhuman tremolo and vibrato, and make those spins to another position much safer and reproducible. Bass amplifiers and speakers deal with lower frequency more efficiently. You could use a crossover setup to filter and bi-amp the output to separate speaker cabinets to achieve the full sound. Or build a hybrid. One last thing is a noise gate or some way to silence the unwanted sound from pickups you aren't using (back, top, bottom). Though leaving it could open the door to a thumb rest bass lines and alternate tuning. At least when overdriving the signal, a noise gate would be huge, since you can't use your right palm to mute the other strings on a cylindrical guitar neck.

On your world tour you should see if you can get a piece written specifically for this guitar, since usually it is written for two different instruments, it doesn't take full advantage! Would be cool! If you haven't already gone!

good luck and good job, mattias! the 360 degrees guitar is very promising!

Big fan of your vids mannnn it's been a while

Another version with eliptical or compound radius fretboards may be more ergonomic to play and still be able to flip around the rotating axis

I have been using various versions of Rocksmith for years and it's pretty great. I don't use it so much to learn, but just to play a really wide variety of different styles of music as a way to practice. The current version of Rocksmith with the subscription model is neat, but for the first year or so I found that there was a pretty limited selection of songs that I actually wanted to play as a bassist. I meant to cancel the subscription after the first year, but forgot because I hadn't used it for months, and then Ubisoft charged me another full year without warning. I tried every way I could to dispute the charge but Ubisoft refused to refund or cancel my subscription. Since I'm stuck with it for another year, I'm glad there to see there is actually some decent new music. Last time I had played there wasn't any Green Day, Paramore, Metallica, Van Halen etc. I will have to see what is actually available for bass. The original launch version was much more focused on guitar than bass, and even though there were technically thousands of songs available, only a portion of them had playable bass transcriptions. If there really is more decent content now, maybe I will keep the subscription in the future.

Man - this guitar is so amazing!

the potential of having someone practice and eventually master this thing is beyond words

To help combat the spinning you could create gears that rotate a flywheel. It will resist rotation while you want it still and aid when you want it to rotate

I think a neck brace on this would actually help it greatly with regards to the balance issues. It'd take off some pressure in trying to stabilize it as well, leading to more speed and precision. It might actually be playable with one lmao. Can't wait to see how others fair at it. It is certainly an interesting idea, maybe beyond us puny humans. A larger vertical-standing version could maybe be interesting as well, but that'd be like Harp on hard-mode lol

Rocksmith is legit the best thing that ever happened to me as a musician. My timing and accuracy SUCKED when I was originally starting, but I play7ed for like 3 or 4 hours a day for about 6 months, and I went from barely being able to play the Ramones to being able to play Cannibal Corpse easily. I did develop a weird playing style from it, though. I once sat down with a prog player (who actually went to a cannibal corpse gig with me once.) and he was like "How the fuck do you play that??" and my answer was I don't fucking know. How do you play?"

I’m so happy to see you with so many more subs.

Perhaps a bar parallel to the guitar neck on the back for your hand to rest on instead of the strings, yet allows enough access to still spin the neck?

This guitar gives rock and "roll" a whole new meaning.

I feel like that app would turn every darksouls player into a guitarist

It might help if you added a smooth spine running parallel to the strings to give your palm a place to rest on that the strings wont cut into, then you can use your fingers to rotate the fret board. Might need to remove a few strings and make the fretboard smaller to do that tho.

I love this guitar

This will be bought by the same people who mono-ski.

Well done creating this new guitar invention.

You should play “the city must survive” on that gatling guitar

Yes! I'm excited to watch this one!

Get that bag my guy. Thanks Rocksmith.

Great stuff!

I’d like this guitar now! Thanks

This is so innovative

That is one of the coolest instruments I’ve ever seen.

You should've add a motor and make it spin so that the guitar side faces the front on a press of a button, same for the bass side.

This video deserves so many more views.

Sorry if you had mentioned this in your previous videos (it’s been a lengthy process since you started this spinning guitar!), but would it benefit to have a brake for the spinning neck that you can hold down with your right wrist while playing? You seem to have pretty good control of it now, but it may give your left thumb a break from having to stabilize the neck and accurately hold the frets (or maybe do an easier vibrato).

This looks fun AF

THIS IS CRAZY COOL!

add a mag-break that is worked by either a hip-lever or another, ergonomic trigger. Maybe having a progressive resistance as its pressed within a range with any more pressure giving full beans.... then u could tweak the guitar to hold it in place but untweak when u wanna keychange?

Great day when Mattias uploads

the more I look to your 360° neck guitare and the more it make me want to try it. Just a question : have you consider putting a second neck behind the rotating one so your thumb can avoid getting hurt ?

For the rotation function, since you’re using a motor, I’d recommend adding a rotary encoder with a gear system and a PLD controller to offer better control of the motorized rotation. It would also let you make presets for string positions

I insist, I think Jacob Collier must know this guitar. The day he finds out about its existence he will want to use it in one of his concerts. P.S. Excellent video! I discovered your channel recently and I have watched almost all the videos hahaha, very good content.🎉

Still feel like the guitar needs some extra tools to actually bring merit. Like some way to spin a certain distance quick and accurately to effectively increase the range of notes you can play etc.

YOU HAVE TO DO THIS! Servo motor, foot pedal control.... You can control speed of spin You can control POSITION of neck (so have a button for standard guitar, button to spin to bass position, etc.) You can have a tremolo button to move the neck back and forth You can have bend button/vibrato/etc YOU HAVE TO

He's so genuinely happy about the library being so big he had to mention it four times.

fortsätt med det du gör. ps älskar dina videos

You should try an open tuning like Open D or Open G. It may allow you to explore more the instrument in a different way, like a dobro. Also, what about using a slide? Perhaps something like a rounded slide? Idk... To me, this shouldn´t be treated as a guitar or a bass since it can spin. What about something that can press all the strings at the same time while it´s spinning, and you could also move it to higher or lower frets without having to stop the spinning motion but also keeping the strings pressed

So so cool !

That’s music and engineering wow!!! 😮😮😮

I think you can also flatten out the fret tracks along each string. That should allow for better contact...and I still think you need a bridge just before the pickup end of the rotating shaft..

Fun as always!

I wish there was a way that you could put a gentle stop in the neck. So that it wants to rotate then stop, rotate and stop, rotate back to the original position.

You can set up a template project in a DAW with drums, bass and guitar samplers, and convert any gtp to midi. Many drums libraries even support gtp drums scheme so you don't need to make drastic adjustments. You almost instantly have a backing track for basically any song you can find tabs for, not just the ones Ubisoft decided you can play with. Of course you need to know how to work with DAW, but you would definitely need to learn it anyways if you want to become a decent modern electric guitarist (ones who fully into 80's way of monitoring, practicing and recording are probably reject Rocksmith too).

Very cool design! Two things: 1st: Would it help you to protect your hand if you had some kind of guard to rest your palm on? (maybe a half/quarter pipe - or even just a rod - on the 'back' of your revolvitar's neck). 2nd: How about some kind of cap, so the ends of the strings don't dangle around on the top end? - Purely aesthetic, I know, but I think that would make your revolvitar look more finished...

5:36 “ah, I see! It continuously monitors how bad I play” Whoa! Just like my anxiety 😂😂😓😭😭😭

Honestly, it’s a neat idea, and I really think your proof of concept works. It just needs a slight redesign to make it more comfortable to play. Some a kind of sliding handle for the neck, that you would wrestle your palm on, with some twist movement as well as up and down the neck. It should only really be wide enough hot the heel of your palm but sit comfortably right in the crook of it. Giving you a more flexible grip but also greater control of the position of your hand. then a kinda dimmer switch style controller for the rotation motor. It would be operated by thumb and should sit Parallel to the neck, have it spring-loaded to be centered by default, which would be ‘stopped’. The more you push it one way of the other controls how fast it rotates. Giving you far easier control of the position of the cords.

@MarcinGuitar needs to see this.

Have your tried looking at a stepper motor to rotate it? They have angular control so in theory you could have a foot pedal that rotates the guitar by constant speeds and another that rotates it one or two strings at a time.

Mattias is the kind of guy to practice something 200 times and wonder how he became so good!! 😂😂😂 Your creativity is inspiring bro!!!

IVe been loooking for something like this which works withoguht midi on pianos THank you

Can you imagine Slash playing your guitar at a concert?

I want one of these so bad

What everyone who plays at least thought or tried to do,....... This guy created it... And it works.. Keep it up!

and yes, shoot for the stars!

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